ORCID Profile
0000-0003-4007-6598
Current Organisations
Australian Research Council
,
RMIT University
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Research Topics
In Research Link Australia (RLA), "Research Topics" refer to ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes. These topics are either sourced from ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes listed in researchers' related grants or generated by a large language model (LLM) based on their publications.
Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Urban Analysis and Development | Urban and Regional Planning | Architecture And Urban Environment Not Elsewhere Classified | Other Built Environment and Design | Other Architecture, Urban Environment And Building | Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics | Building Not Elsewhere Classified | Agriculture, Land and Farm Management | Structural Engineering | Construction Materials | Civil Engineering | Sustainable Development | Building Science And Techniques | Building Construction Management | Urban And Regional Planning | Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Residential Construction Design | Climate change | Housing | Computer Software and Services not elsewhere classified | Residential Building Management and Services | Urban Planning | Renewable energy | Residential Construction Planning | Environmentally Sustainable Construction not elsewhere classified | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Housing | Housing | Environmental education and awareness | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare
Related Links
Publications
Man caves, granny flats and alternative living spaces: Low carbon home retrofit and implications for policymaking
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Megacity Dhaka: ‘water security syndrome’ and implications for the scholarship of sustainability
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-04-2018
Improving outcomes for apartment residents and neighbourhoods
Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Date: 28-05-2020
Benefits and challenges of energy efficient social housing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Problem-Based Learning at a Distance
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-328-9.CH013
Abstract: A case study approach is taken to illustrate a design approach to the development of a Masters course. Over a 10-year period, the course was developed from traditional delivery and teaching modes, through the introduction of problem-based learning, and the incorporation of human computer interaction (HCI) elements. The latter development coincided with a shift from classroom-based teaching to distance learning mode, and the resource and design issues in this dual transformation are discussed. Pedagogic principles of problem-based learning were applied along with a range of other case conditions in framing the design intent. It is concluded that the design process in HCI and problem-based learning applications is central in ensuring that appropriate learning environments are established. While there is no single formula for designing problem-based learning or integrating HCI into learning programmes, the application of appropriate principles and methods is essential.
PIQET: the design and development of an online ‘streamlined’ LCA tool for sustainable packaging design decision support
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-05-2010
Policing and polluting: The role of practices in contemporary urban environmental pollution governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Implementing the UN SDGs in Universities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 04-2019
Opencast coal mining in England and Wales
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1991
Peak oil: Challenges and changes for the air transport industry
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-10-2016
Cost efficient low-emission housing: Implications for household cash-flows in Melbourne
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2014
Transition to low carbon? An analysis of socio-technical change in housing renovation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-01-2014
Abstract: Across the westernised world, concerns about climate change and resource scarcity point to the need for widescale changes in housing renovation. Through the exploration of social interactions of eco-renovation businesses on the ground, the paper presents evidence for the emergence of an ‘eco-renovation niche’ consisting of both traditional and new types of housing industry businesses. However, this niche is not clearly bounded, stable or homogenous, and so generalised ideas about how it may grow in scale or size are problematic. Niche participants typically wish to stay small. Also, complex household relations are involved, and hands-on experimentation is a feature of the industry participants. For policy purposes, this suggests a need to focus on strategic intermediaries in industry and professional associations, licensing bodies and regulators, who could in turn support programmes that more adequately recognise the modus operandi of the industry, households and civil society organisations.
High‐rise plastic: Socio‐material entanglements in apartments
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-06-2022
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12457
Abstract: Plastic is a persistent problem in westernised cities. Yet it is also a key mediator, affording and assisting the everyday. In small apartments, it supports daily life by assisting with waste management, storage, and provisioning of affordable ornaments and furniture. Plastic, in this context, is a mundane and utilitarian substrate to apartment life, as well as being a problematic potential pollutant. Recognising the erse contributions to research on high‐density living, this paper draws on vertical urbanism and relational ideas of home. It explores the socio‐material entanglements of plastic in apartments through household interviews across Melbourne, London, Barcelona, and Perth. The research reveals ways in which plastic mediates the material inequalities of high‐rise living, typified by entanglements of space constraint, transience, and waste management. The contribution is twofold. Theoretically, our work suggests a direction for socio‐materialities research in reframing ideas of home as a static, physical site, to one that is more contingent materially and spatially. As various households adapt and make do, their refuges in the sky are being reconfigured physically and symbolically by and through plastic. Relational approaches can help to reveal the mundane but critical entanglements of plastic and everyday life in apartments. Second, empirically, we show that mundane infrastructures matter they shape the spaces and places of plastic and apartment inequalities. Thus, policy interventions that target household behaviours can only have a marginal impact on plastic consumption where uneven infrastructures remain. Moreover, they may direct attention away from where change might be more promising, such as wider social rules and meanings around plastic, and the materialities of building design/management for waste infrastructures both inside and outside the apartment.
“They are grinding us into the ground” – The lived experience of (in)energy justice amongst low-income older households
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Low Carbon Urban Transitioning: From Local Experimentation to Urban Transformation?
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 27-02-2015
DOI: 10.3390/SU7032437
International assessment of the environmental performance of housing, and prospects for sustainable cities
Publisher: WIT Press
Date: 28-06-2006
DOI: 10.2495/SC060031
The New Urban Agenda: From Vision to Policy and Action/Will the New Urban Agenda Have Any Positive Influence onGovernments and International Agencies?/Informality in the New Urban Agenda: From the Asp
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2018
Dwelling performance and adaptive summer comfort in low-income Australian households
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-03-2017
Introduction: Social practices, intervention and sustainability: Beyond behaviour change
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-11-2014
Warm, cool and energy-affordable housing policy solutions for low-income renters
Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Date: 23-09-2020
The Ethical City: A Rationale for an Urgent New Urban Agenda
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-11-2016
DOI: 10.3390/SU8111197
Policies to Promote the Environmental Efficiency of Housing
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
The Lived Experience of COVID-19: Housing and Household Resilience
Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Date: 19-11-2020
Towards global benchmarking for sustainable homes: an international comparison of the energy performance of housing
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-03-2008
Zero emission housing: Policy development in Australia and comparisons with the EU, UK, USA and California
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Affordable passive solar design in a temperate climate: An experiment in residential building orientation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2011
Spatio-temporalities of convenience eating for sustainability outcomes at an inner-urban university
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-04-2021
Abstract: This article addresses questions about sustainability outcomes and the convenience‐oriented eating practices that tend to dominate some urban universities and that are largely associated with intensive resource and energy consumption. Instead of considering food consumption on c us as a product of in idual behaviours and choices (commonly the normative frame for provisioning of eating sociospatial infrastructures), we use social practice theory to examine how timespace infrastructures shape and are shaped by eating practices on c us. The digital ethnographic methods used to capture these practices include focus groups, food maps, and discussions on a facilitated Facebook group. Our analysis suggests that university eating times and spaces normalise and promote unsustainable forms of convenience eating. For university leadership teams concerned with promoting sustainable practices, the findings highlight the limitations of in idualistic solutions that aim to encourage students to make healthier and more sustainable food choices. We show that by rescheduling timetables to provide dedicated mealtimes and by providing more shared eating spaces and associated infrastructure, those leadership teams could work to reimagine and intervene in the timespaces of c us life and steer taken‐for‐granted food practices in more sustainable directions.
A green process for the purification of biodegradable poly(β-hydroxybutyrate)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Low carbon, water-efficient house retrofits: An emergent niche?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2014
Transitioning to low carbon communities-from behaviour change to systemic change: Lessons from Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2010
Urban low carbon transitions: institution-building and prospects for interventions in social practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2019
Green Renovations: Intersections of Daily Routines, Housing Aspirations and Narratives of Environmental Sustainability
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Housing, households and climate change adaptation in the town camps of Alice Springs
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-10-2014
Living lightly: How does climate change feature in residential home improvements and what are the implications for Policy?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-01-2011
The lack of a right to housing and its implications in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2010
Assessment of social vulnerability to climate change at the local scale: development and application of a Social Vulnerability Index
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-07-2017
Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-05-2016
Abstract: In many new world cities, inner city apartment development proceeds at unprecedented rates. In dominant urban planning and property development discourses, new inner city dwellers are consumption-orientated young professionals and “empty nesters”—all similarly childless. Nonetheless, families make their homes in city apartments, and their experiences are not well understood. Meanwhile, within urban and political geography, new interest in verticality has directed attention to the changing urban topography and volumetric profile of cities. However, a topographic bias occludes the mundane, intensive relations that enervate these everyday lived spaces (i.e. ordinary topologies), while a fascination with spectacular urbanisms and cities in conflict neglects other “ordinary” vertical urbanisms. Drawing on a qualitative study of high-rise families in inner city Melbourne (Australia), this article responds both to calls for a more topological rendering of vertical urbanisms and the neglected experiences of vertical urban families. We detail the intimate and material geographies of high-rise family living and highlight how the topologies of high-rise living and the topographies of urban intensification projects intersect, including with benign and hopeful prospects for the contemporary city.
Routes of reuse of second-hand goods in Melbourne households
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-09-2017
Recognition justice in Australia: Hidden energy vulnerability through the experiences of intermediaries
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Limits to labels: The role of eco‐labels in the assessment of product sustainability and routes to sustainable consumption
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2009
Towards sustainable facilities management
Publisher: Spon Press
Date: 09-02-2009
Housing Industry Transitions: An Urban Living Lab in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-02-2020
Place, Space and Identity Through Greening in Kampung Kota
Publisher: The Institute for Research and Community Services (LPPM) ITB
Date: 20-12-2019
Retrofit Poverty: Socioeconomic Spatial Disparities in Retrofit Subsidies Uptake
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.5334/BC.13
Pie in the sky: exploring food practices amongst those living in apartments within Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2022
From Ballarat to Bangkok: how can cross-sectoral partnerships around the Sustainable Development Goals accelerate urban liveability?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-01-2020
Rethinking Urban Transitions
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-03-2018
Greening heritage housing: Understanding homeowners' renovation practices in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-03-2014
A comparative assessment of the energy and carbon balance of utilizing straw
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1996
Housing inequalities and resilience: the lived experience of COVID-19
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-11-2021
Related Organisations
Council For The Protection Of Rural England
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Acer Environmental
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of Warwick
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of Salford
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Sheffield Hallam University
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of Plymouth
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Related Funding Activities
Lifetime Affordable Housing In Australia: Integrating Environmental Performance And Affordability
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2010
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDecision Making For Lifetime Affordable And Tenable City Housing
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityInfill Developments: Project HOME (Housing Outcomes Metrics And Evaluation)
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2017
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityCarbon Neutral Communities: Making The Transition
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2009
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityMore Than A Roof Overhead: Meeting The Need For A Sustainable Housing System In Remote Indigenous Communities
Start Date: 2008
End Date: 2011
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityHousing Energy Efficiency Transitions: Scaling Up Affordable Retrofit
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883615
Start Date: 03-2009
End Date: 12-2012
Amount: $230,643.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100089
Start Date: 04-2016
End Date: 04-2022
Amount: $466,328.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP130100008
Start Date: 07-2013
End Date: 07-2016
Amount: $435,437.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0775120
Start Date: 05-2007
End Date: 05-2010
Amount: $169,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0776834
Start Date: 10-2007
End Date: 07-2011
Amount: $339,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP170100420
Start Date: 12-2018
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $511,109.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityIndustrial Transformation Research Hubs - Grant ID: IH200100010
Start Date: 07-2021
End Date: 07-2026
Amount: $5,000,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity